The Local Coordination Committees in Syria (LCC) condemns the blatant attacks on the recently liberated hero prisoner Wiaam Ammasheh and his family, who have been attacked by the Shabiha (armed thugs) of the Syrian regime in the occupied Golan Heights.

Mr. Ammasheh and his family have been subjected, by hoodlums and consciousless thugs in the occupied Golan Heights, to the basest forms of harassment and assault since the early days of his liberation.

The assault did not stop at verbal abuse and defamation. Shabiha thugs went as far as to attack Mr. Ammasheh’s home, his family members, and his personal property in an unprecedented show of force in the area.

Israeli authorities arrested Mr. Ammasheh’s older brother after the assault, and he is still under arrest after the Syrian regime’s thugs filed a claimed against him, even though he was only defending himself and his family.

We declare our full support for activist Ammasheh and his family, and we reiterate our unwavering support for our people in the occupied Golan Heights, who have suffered from the occupation and forced absence from their homeland Syria for more than 40 years. The current regime has offered them nothing but neglect over the past four decades. Now the oppression and terrorism of the Shabiha have reached the area in an attempt to silence the voices of the Revolution in our beloved Golan, where we know full well that the majority are with the uprising.

The LCC supports activist Mr. Ammasheh, detained by Israeli occupying authorities for 14 years, for his national and ethical position on our quest for freedom. We join him in rejecting all forms of oppression and suppression of human freedom and dignity. The “Ammasheh experience” proves that those who arrest and those who kill have common interests despite any hostility or opposition they might show to one another publicly: they are first and foremost against the people’s struggle for freedom, hope, and safety, and the quest for a better life.